The Workplace Project/Centro de Derechos Laborales—founded in 1992—is a membership-based organization that unites immigrant workers and their families for better working and living conditions.
The Workplace Project was founded on the belief that while providing services might alleviate some of the pain of exploitation; it would do nothing to fix the problems in the long run. Instead, it has chosen to build a grassroots movement and to strengthen the immigrant community through a cycle of education, leadership training, membership building, and organizing for change in the labor context.
The Workplace Project was one of the first workers’ centers in the United States to focus on organizing the Latino/a immigrant community and to establish an organizing model which has inspired other workers’ centers across the country.
The Workplace Project is a member of NDLON, the National Day Laborer Organizing Network through which we struggle for substantive change in the conditions facing the workers.